Kwechaan
English: Translation
Quechan, Yuma indians
Part of Speech
noun
Semantic Domain
Names of people and clans
Notes
Also Kuchaan.
Note similarity to wechan (nechan) "goes down, descends". In the singular form, this nominalizes to kwechan or kuchan, "one who descended". The native Quechan name for themselves is Kwatsáan, meaning "those who descended", referring to their people's origin story.